Though animated more like a saturday morning cartoon than a feature and featuring rather bland character designs, "The Brave Little Toaster" is still better than a lot of other cartoons. It has a visual creativity (part-Looney Tunes, part Silly Symphonies, and (a small)part MTV) that makes up for its limitations. Plus, the story (about animate appliances going on a road trip to find their master) beats Toy Story to the punch by about seven years (though I suppose animate inanimate objects were just about the first things put into cartoons). The songs are fun, if not performed perfectly, and fit better with the story than in a lot of recent Disney movies. The scene where the appliances all clean the house to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" is a lot more entertaining than the "whistle While You Work" scene from Snow White. The best thing about "BLT," though, is Toaster himself, who is the most convincing of the characters as he transforms from a bit of a coward and a follower into a full-fledged hero in the end. The scene he has with the flower is really beautiful.
I was ten when this movie first came out, and I watched it whenever I could on the Disney channel. It's still one of my favorite English-language cartoons from the eighties.
I was ten when this movie first came out, and I watched it whenever I could on the Disney channel. It's still one of my favorite English-language cartoons from the eighties.